Glamorgan Sausages in Eggplant Bacon Wraps
[Vegan]

To Make the Sausages:

1. Gently fry your mushrooms until their juices are released, then stir until the juices have evaporated, so that you have slightly juicy mushrooms but without liquid in the pan, having retained all the flavors.
2. Now place all your sunflower seeds in your food processor and process, then remove them into a bowl.
3. Next, process your sun dried tomatoes, give them a blitz, and then process the onions and leek, taking care to scraping down the edges of the bowl into the center.
4. Now add the sunflower mix to the onion mix, add the mushrooms and the remaining ingredients, and blitz for a few seconds – don’t over process, this step is just so you can incorporate the ingredients together, not to process further, otherwise your mixture won’t thicken properly.
5. You should be left with a semi thickish ball. Refrigerate for a couple of hours.
6. Then lightly flour a surface with the buckwheat, take a large tablespoon of the mixture, roll into a ball, and on your floured surface shape lightly into the shape of a medium to small sausage – do this with them all. Handle with care.
7. Now it’s time to roll them.

To Make the Smoked Eggplant Bacon:

1. Place the marinade ingredients in a small cup, and stir very well. Then, pour the mixture onto a flat plate, dip each slice of eggplant on both sides into this mixture, and place in a dish.  Do the same to all your eggplant slices, then cover and marinate in the fridge for an hour or so.
2. Now fry each piece in a skillet pan, with the grooves of the pan running parallel with the length of the eggplant slice, so that it leaves lines on the eggplant – in this way it emulates a bacon slice. Turn them over gently when marked and cooked (but don’t overcook them).
3. Preheat your oven to 300ºF. Allow the ‘bacon’ slices to cool, then wrap around the center of the sausages, and place in a pre-greased oven dish.  Now bake in the oven for 20 minutes or a little longer.   Then serve with mustard and a healthy salad with tasty dressing.